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I'm so sorry for my poor English. If you cannot understand me, please view the original Substack piece in Chinese(which you can use AI translate): https://iloveu0120.substack.com/p/a42
AI assistance is used in this passage, but the original one is totally written by human which is me.
By viewing the evolution of modern capitalism, we can know that shifts in social formations have largely depended on changes in technological paradigms. From free-markets to slave capitalism, and later the welfare states, we observed a clear transmission chain: the most foundational technological advances give rise to new forms of production and organization, which further reshape industries and transmit their impact throughout society, subsequently generating a new popular philosophy which ultimately sediments into new social institutions. Whether considering the Hegelian Aufhebung or Deleuzian deterritorialization-escape-reterritorialization, such transformations have recurred continuously across centuries of history.
Yet, the current wave of technology represented by LLMs seems to be relentlessly eroding what has been regarded as the core value of our civilization—namely, the cognitive and mental labor that mere beasts of burden could never replace.
Today, anxiety over AI replacement permeates all of society, as if a digital human were standing by, ready to take over everyone's job. I do not deny the emergence of such phenomena, but I cannot help pointing out a fundamental issue here: AI has been embedded into existing management structures. Whether it was the initial Chatbot, or the subsequent Agents and Multi-Agent Workflows, all of them are merely parodies of human enterprises or workflows; they are all parodies of specific modes of human behavior. To be sure, the rapid implementation and deployment of AI have had to rely on this parody, because the practical effects it delivers give investors greater peace of mind when allocating funds. Yet, I must ask: Is this the form AI ought